Brazilian authorities are taking serious action on illegal deforestation in response to new satellite images showing an almost 30% spike in logging between August 2010 and April 2011, compared to the same period last year. The reports have shocked the government, according to The Guardian, as they follow a period of achieving the lowest levels of Amazonian deforestation ever.Read More …
Brazil gov set to crack down on illegal logging
24 May, 2011 by (comments)Filed Under: Latin America and the Caribbean, Regions